George Santayana Quotes - Page 13

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• Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

  George Santayana

  Dignity, Internet, Free Speech

  "Quotations for Our Time" edited by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

  George Santayana

  Vices, Genius, Rebellious

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Order, Support

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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• Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

  George Santayana

  Order, Remember, Sometimes

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• Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

  George Santayana

  Home, Men, Mind

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• A friend's only gift is himself.

  George Santayana

  Love, Self Love

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.88, 谷月社

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• The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

  George Santayana

  Real, History, Theatre

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.84, Indiana University Press

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• It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

  George Santayana

  Football, Art, Kindness

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

  George Santayana

  Blessed, Animal, Peaceful

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

  George Santayana

  Music, Mean, Giving

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

  George Santayana

  Powerful, America, Optimism

  George Santayana (1921). “Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America”

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• Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

  George Santayana

  Profound, Doubt, Criticism

  "Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies". Book by George Santayana, 1922.

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• ... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

  George Santayana

  Love, Heart, Surrender

  "The Philosophy of Santayana: Selections from All the Works of George Santayana".

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• You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Heart, Reality

  Durant Drake, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, James Bissett Pratt, Arthur Kenyon Rogers, George Santayana (1920). “Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge”

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• Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.

  George Santayana

  Mean, Order, Profound

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• The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

  George Santayana

  Life, Believe, Long

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

  George Santayana

  Life, Art, Peace

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.107, MIT Press

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• To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

  George Santayana

  Self, Useless, Occupation

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

  George Santayana

  Winter, Civilization, Long

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy”

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• Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Self, Bird

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both for enjoyment and creation is highly specialized and exclusive, and hence the greatest ages of art have often been strangely intolerant. The invectives of one school against another, perverse as they are philosophically, are artistically often signs of health, because they indicate a vital appreciation of certain kinds of beauty, a love of them that has grown into a jealous passion.

  George Santayana

  Appreciation, Art, Passion

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• In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

  George Santayana

  Philosophical, Mind, Unexpected

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• It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Advantage, Phylosophy

  The Unknowable (1923)

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• It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

  George Santayana

  Honor, Atheism, Deities

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.54, Рипол Классик

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• Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Past, Echoes

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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